I am with you on that.
I hate the covers on the P38 wheel nuts and the bloody plastic tool is ****e and I don't think I have ever actually managed to remove 1. Especially as soon as a socket is hammered on it makes the cover impossible to get off cos nobody does
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The L322 is the same and after my 2 days in the garage have decided that the covers are coming off, or to try find some replacement's without covers.
J
We MAY be talking at cross purposes here.
The locking wheel nut cover is a total PITA cos, as you say the piece of plastic sh!t is just that and the tips break off for a pastime.
(some sanctimonious types think it's me but enough agree with us on this.)
So to remove this I simply stick the wheelwrench socket over it and wiggle it a bit, then pull it off.
But the actual normal wheel nuts that also have stainless steel covers over them that
don't come off, they are the ones I am on about, and so far I have either put up with them swelling up and used a larger socket or, in one case, a bloke I know gave me one buckshee, when in a tyre place.
Maybe the P38 wheel nuts are different, but I doubt it.
I feel sorry for anyone who has a full wheel change kit in his/her Disco and therefore feels confident he/she will be able to change a tyre should they need to.
And this is to say nothing of the LR hydraulic jack that is an angel when it works but a devil if some of the oil has leaked out. And having it stashed on its side in the proper place next to the battery doesn't seem to help this. I now keep mine vertical in one of the rear paniers, after the leak happened to me.